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Online Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics
Set yourself apart as a leader in one of the fastest growing in-demand fields of business with a quality MBA Business Analytics degree—100% online.
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Program Overview
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The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Online MBA in Business Analytics enables you to supplement your existing business knowledge with a thorough understanding of the role of technology and data in business intelligence. Through our MBA core coursework you will enhance your leadership skills and decision-making abilities.
In this online MBA program, you will study topics designed to amplify high-demand skills in analytics that include database management, data warehousing, processes and applications for data-driven insights, information systems management, and data mining for business intelligence.
This MBA business analytics program will enable you to:
- Build and enhance business intelligence capabilities by adapting the appropriate technology and software solutions
- Improve decision-making capabilities by assessing business intelligence architecture and more
- Apply the principles and techniques of database design, administration and implementation to enhance data collection capabilities and decision-support systems
- Critique the role of information and analytics in supporting business processes, functions and decisions
- Communicate effectively in a variety of modes and contexts across departments within an organization
- Effectively communicate analytical conclusions in written and visual formats
- Articulate assumptions, analyses and interpretations of data in an oral format
- Build and enhance business intelligence capabilities by adapting the appropriate technology and software solutions
- Improve decision-making capabilities by assessing business intelligence architecture and more
- Apply the principles and techniques of database design, administration and implementation to enhance data collection capabilities and decision-support systems
- Critique the role of information and analytics in supporting business processes, functions and decisions
- Communicate effectively in a variety of modes and contexts across departments within an organization
- Effectively communicate analytical conclusions in written and visual formats
- Articulate assumptions, analyses and interpretations of data in an oral format
- Build and enhance business intelligence capabilities by adapting the appropriate technology and software solutions
- Improve decision-making capabilities by assessing business intelligence architecture and more
- Apply the principles and techniques of database design, administration and implementation to enhance data collection capabilities and decision-support systems
- Critique the role of information and analytics in supporting business processes, functions and decisions
- Communicate effectively in a variety of modes and contexts across departments within an organization
- Effectively communicate analytical conclusions in written and visual formats
- Articulate assumptions, analyses and interpretations of data in an oral format
Business analytics career opportunities:
- Operations Manager
- Insights and Analytics Manager
- Corporate Strategist
- Business Analytics Consultant
- Director of Business Operations
- Operations Manager
- Insights and Analytics Manager
- Corporate Strategist
- Business Analytics Consultant
- Director of Business Operations
The College of Business at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). The TAMU-CC College of Business is one of only 193 business schools worldwide holding dual accreditation in both business and accounting programs.
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Tuition
Our budget-friendly tuition can be paid as you go
The Online MBA – Business Analytics program at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi provides an affordable pathway to earning a respected graduate degree.
Tuition and fees are subject to change without notice by action of the Board of Regents.
Additional Fees
Master's degrees require a one-time, non-refundable application fee of $50 for U.S. residents and $70 for international applicants. Applicants requesting to change term of entry to a future term, within the year, may request this change one time without submitting a new application fee.
A $50 late fee is assessed for tuition payments made after the deadline.
Courses may be subject to proctoring exams up to $75 plus late fees.
Financial Aid Can Help Pay Your Tuition
Scholarships and loans are available. The application period for the academic year began January 1st. The application is valid for Fall, Spring, and Summer terms. Complete the FAFSA, available online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.Enter Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Federal School Code (011161) in Step 6 on the FAFSA form.
Financial Aid Contact Information
Financial Aid OfficeTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Office of Student Financial Assistance
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5772
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5772
Phone: 361-825-2338
Fax: 361-825-6095
[email protected]
Veteran Affairs Contact & Benefit Information
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is committed to recruiting, retaining, and supporting active duty service members, veterans, and dependents to maintain a diverse and highly qualified student body, faculty, and staff. For additional information, please visit the Veterans Affairs Office site.
Veterans Affairs OfficeTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Veterans Affairs Office
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5775
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5775
Phone: 361-825-2331 or 361-825-3610
Fax: 361-825-2533
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Calendar
Read about our application deadlines and class schedules
Take advantage of our flexible, 100% online format with 7-week courses and several start dates a year. You can start when it’s most convenient for you, and earn your Online MBA while you continue working.
| Term | Application Deadline | Missing Documents Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Course Start Date | Course End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 1 | 4/19/24 | 5/1/24 | 5/14/24 | 5/8/24 | 5/15/24 | 7/5/24 |
| Summer 2 | 6/14/24 | 6/26/24 | 7/7/24 | 7/1/24 | 7/8/24 | 8/23/24 |
Read about our application deadlines and class schedules
Dropping a Course While Remaining Enrolled in Other Courses
A student dropping a course or courses yet remaining enrolled in the University for at least one course on or before specified date may be subject to a 100% refund of applicable tuition and fees according to the schedule.
Withdrawing from All Courses for the Term
A student officially and completely withdrawing from the University during the semester may be subject to a refund of applicable tuition and fees according to the schedule.
A review of accounts is done at the conclusion of the withdrawal refund period to insure proper payment of tuition and fees. Refunds will be processed after each audit. Withdrawals are calculated based on the total tuition and fees, not the amount paid. Refunds are available in three forms: direct deposit, paper check or BankMobile Vibe account. To find out more information about the BankMobile Refund Process, go to BankMobile. Your billing, permanent and local addresses must be current in order to receive all vital information. Please update your addresses on SAIL or with the Registrar's Office.
Admissions
Follow our streamlined admission requirements for the Business Analytics MBA online program
Please review the admission guidelines for the Online MBA program below. For specific questions or more details, view our Admission FAQs.
- 3.0 GPA or above in the last 60 hours: No GMAT scores are required
- 2.75 – 2.99 GPA in the last 60 hours: No GMAT scores are required and conditional admission will be granted
- Students with a conditional admission will be required to earn at least a 3.0 GPA in their first three graduate courses to continue in the program
- Enrollment in additional courses will not be allowed until acceptable GMAT scores are received
- 2.5 – 2.749 GPA in the last 60 hours: GMAT scores will be required
- School code is 6849. Generally, scores over 5 years old will not be accepted
- Submit the following:
- A nonrefundable application fee ($50 domestic / $70 international)
- A current resume
- An essay describing your professional and educational goals in at least 500 words.
- All admissions documents can be uploaded here
- All official transcripts documenting undergraduate and graduate coursework taken at any accredited college or university attended. These must be sent directly from the granting institution(s) to Recruitment and Admissions via email or to:
Office of Recruitment and Admissions
ATTN: Graduate Admissions
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit # 5774
Student Services Center 101
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5774
**MBA Transfer Credit Policy - A student may transfer up to 9 semester hours of graduate credit [advanced courses only] from another AACSB university with the permission of the Director of Master's Programs, if it is determined appropriate to the degree being sought. Graduate coursework transferred from other regionally accredited institutions of higher education prior to acceptance cannot be older than seven years at the time the master's degree is awarded. Credit to be earned at other institutions after acceptance in the graduate program must be taken at an AACSB accredited program and approved in advance. Approval is granted at the discretion of the Director of Master's Programs.
If you have submitted an application for the online program and prefer to change your entry term, please complete the Change Term of Entry form and email to [email protected] or fax to (361) 825-5887. Applicants may request a change of term once a year. All additional requests will require a new application fee.
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Courses
Advance your knowledge in these online Business Analytics MBA classes
Our Online MBA – Business Analytics curriculum is designed to build on your base of essential business functions to enhance your skills in applying data for informed decisions. Students must complete 12 courses (36 credit hours) consisting of eight advanced MBA courses and four concentration courses, one of which must be either Managing the Information Systems Function or Business Application Development.
Learning Outcomes
- Use technology to conduct in-depth business valuation models and be able to interpret and use the model results to make informed business decisions
- Use accounting information to make business decisions
- Understand and interpret the financial reports of firms in different industries
- Recognize the potential effects on financial results of management decisions, corporate transactions, and the adoption of different accounting policies
- Communicate effectively with other users of company financial reports
Learning Outcomes
- From the firm’s management perspective to be able to effectively identify the market structure that the firm competes in and its primary and secondary competitors
- Integrate the use of marginal analysis into the managerial decision-making process
Learning Outcomes
- Know the role and function of the financial sector participants including banks, investment banks, mutual funds, securities markets and corporations
- Understand the function of management and role of corporate governance in firm success
- Be able to analyze key financial statements
- Use information contained in financial statements to evaluate firm performance and develop financial forecasts
- Derive the free cash flow generated by a project or business and consider the implications of inaccuracies in forecasts
- Understand interest rates and monetary policy including the term structure of interest rates and resulting yield curve
- Be able to perform security valuation using important valuation models and deriving the appropriate discount rates
- Understand time value of money concepts, WACC, and capital budgeting techniques
- Identify and apply appropriate decision criteria to determine whether real assets should be acquired or sold
- Estimate an appropriate risk-adjusted required rate of return for evaluating investments in real assets
- Understand how capital structure and payout policies affect firm value and growth
Learning Outcomes:
- An enhanced ability to manage organizations and their members by improving the skills for identifying causes of organizational events and devising action plans for influencing future events and behaviors.
- An increased understanding of the roles of theory and research in management decision making.
- Additional critical thinking skills for identifying organizational dynamics based on existing theories and research as applied to case-study analysis.
- Interpret and integrate concepts and strategies into business practices.
- Develop a working relationship with contemporary management challenges for the purpose of understanding, developing, analyzing, and preparing for consideration of management decisions.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand concepts of working with a computer and other related devices
- Understand the advances of Excel and Access
- Understand the role of information systems in supporting decision-making
- Discuss how technologies can be used to improve management
- Gain experience on organizing and manipulating data using Excel and Access
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the role of strategy in marketing management
- Develop analytical skills to understand a marketing problem
- Acquire basic skills to design appropriate marketing mix for a target market
- Understand the implementation of a marketing program from a managerial perspective
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify or define the set of decisions that operations managers make; the trends and challenges facing them; and the customer supplier relationships between them
- Describe or explain operations in a global environment and develop strategies for competitive advantage
- Describe or explain processes, process choices and layout strategies, and their impact on efficiency, effectiveness and customer service
- Describe total quality management, lean six sigma methods and tools for continuous improvement
- Describe or explain the development of operational policies such an inventory management and scheduling techniques
- Identify or define the resource planning process and the relationship amongst functional areas of the firm.
- Improve writing skills and develop critical thinking skills for problem solving.
Learning Outcomes
- Integrate previously studied material and apply strategic concepts to solve business problems at the general manager level
- Analyze a firm externally and internally to identify its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and propose actions based on that analysis
- Think strategically at functional, business, corporate, and international levels
- Present ideas effectively orally and in writing as an individual and as a team
Students must take the following courses, including either MISY 5350 or MISY 5360.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to use technology effectively to analyze data
- Know the concepts of Entity-Relationship (ER) model
- Be able to design and draw a model for a database application
- Know the concepts of Normalization and appreciate why it is important to the database design
- Gain an experience on how database systems can be constructed using commercial DBMS products
- Know the concepts of data warehouses and business intelligence systems
Learning Outcomes:
- Define and understand business intelligence and analytics, scorecards and dashboards.
- Learn to use Tableau, SAP Predictive Analytics, and other software.
- Learn to extract data from various organizational sources such as Data Warehouses, Datamarts, Cubes, Databases, Excel workbooks and others.
- Learn to manipulate data, and create reports, scorecards and dashboards, including mobile apps.
- Develop applications for various functional areas of an organization.
- Understand the potential impact of these applications in an organization.
- Understand the projected growth of the area of Business Intelligence and Analytics.
Learning Outcomes:
- Define and understand data warehousing and its potential for business intelligence.
- Be able to use data mining techniques to extract business intelligence from data.
- Be able to create value by analyzing data using data mining and visualization software.
- Be familiar with major data mining software packages.
- Learn to extract data from various organizational sources such as databases, data warehouses, data marts, data cubes, Excel workbooks and others.
- Develop data mining applications for various functional areas of an organization.
- Understand the potential impact of business intelligence applications in an organization.
- Understand the projected growth of data mining for business intelligence.
Learning Outcomes:
- Create a detailed ecommerce plan which integrates marketing, financial, management, and technological aspects.
- Evaluate the usefulness of technologies in businesses today and their importance in driving business profitability.
- Research in detail one specific technology and evaluate its impact on business and industry.
- Analyze issues in several cases, identifying major problems and creating workable solutions that address the issues.
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate problem solving with computer programming.
- Demonstrate the basic techniques used to create programming scripts.
- Design, code, and test software applications.
- Discuss computer-programming terminology.
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Texas A&M-Corpus Christi offers a variety of specialized MBA concentrations. Check out all of our MBA online program options.*This MBA can be completed in 12 months and will consist of 10
courses only if the applicant has completed a Bachelor of Business
Administration degree. Up to 4 additional courses may be required for
any other undergraduate degrees.
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